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Limited to 500 numbered copies.
Introduction by Jack Seabrook.
Sewn binding, rounded back, ribbon marker, head and tail bands, printed endpapers, and top-edge stain.
Book size 5¼ × 8¼ inches.
160 pages.
Published March 2023.
ISBN 978-1-61347-315-3.
A man’s mind is a tricky thing, Blake.” So says Dr. Adams to hotshot director, Jake Blake. But those aren’t the words of caution during a routine check-up. They’re spoken as a grim reminder from within the walls of an asylum. And spoken to a man whose memory has all but vanished just like his best days that are far behind him.
Thus begins the madness, cynicism, and disillusionment that runs rampant throughout Charles Willeford’s pocket pulp classic, The Machine in Ward Eleven. Fashioned from six jarring but candid stories, this collection spells out the matter-of-fact brutality of a society that’s too coolly calculated in its deposal of the individual and the human spirit. Sadly, it’s a society not far removed from our ow

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